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All Made-Up: The Hyperfeminization of Fat Women

Millimen, Sarah K
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1429715105

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2015, Master of Liberal Studies, University of Toledo, College of Languages, Literature, and Social Sciences.
“All Made-Up: The Hyperfeminization of Fat Women” analyzes the way some fat women conform to cultural ideals regarding femininity with the goal of having fatness included within that ideal. Fat phobia is used by the dominant culture to oppress women and keep them `in-line’ with the heternormative, white, cultural ideals of beauty in the United States. “All Made-Up” argues that fatness is socially constructed via medicalization, political rhetoric, and mother blame. It argues that hyperfeminization is an important form of fat activism, but one that is narrow in its ability to change cultural ideals. Hyperfeminization reinforces cultural ideals regarding femininity and excludes a vast group of women in the process.
Kim Nielsen, Ph. D. (Advisor)
Sharon Barnes, Ph. D. (Committee Member)
Allyson Day, Ph. D. (Other)
57 p.
Gender Studies; Health; Womens Studies
Fat studies, fat, hyperfeminization, disability, disability studies, heteronormative, Mother Blame, feminism, hypersexualization, fat women, women, Tess Holliday, Jes Baker, The Militant Baker, Body Love Conference, Alison Kafer, Fat blame, activism

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  • Millimen, S. K. (2015). All Made-Up: The Hyperfeminization of Fat Women [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1429715105

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Millimen, Sarah. All Made-Up: The Hyperfeminization of Fat Women. 2015. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1429715105.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Millimen, Sarah. "All Made-Up: The Hyperfeminization of Fat Women." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1429715105

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